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Ted Vetting Carly for Veep
Michael Warren of The Weekly Standard discovered today that Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is vetting Carly Fiorina as a possible running mate.
According to a spokeswoman for Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and one-time presidential candidate is being vetted by Cruz’s campaign.
“Normal stuff,” said Sarah Isgur Flores, who served as deputy campaign manager during Fiorina’s bid, when asked about the process. She added that Fiorina has met with members of the Cruz campaign and has given them financial disclosures and other documentation. Flores added that “no offers” have been made.
Several people have pondered if Cruz should announce his Veep pick in the midst of primary season to build momentum and help voters visualize what a Cruz administration would look like. Although she didn’t rack up delegates, Fiorina is a better communicator than Cruz and showed real talent in marrying jabs of the stilletto with a positive vision of the future. It also helped that she emphatically endorsed the Texas senator back in March while other presidential candidates continue to sit out the race.
All indications show that Tuesday’s primaries will go badly for Cruz. An announcement of Fiorina in the two-slot would be a public relations coup that would energize his voters in Indiana and California. It also might give a reluctant press a reason to talk about him instead of the orange-sheened frontrunner for a couple hours.
Do you think Fiorina is a good pick? If not, who would you recommend for Cruz’s running mate?
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Interesting.
I was thinking he and Kasich might actually team up.
I think she’d bring all the things she offered during the early run: business experience and savvy, deep understanding of the domestic and international issues, overall smarts, and being a woman. I think she’d be great pick!
I would expect the response from the Trump campaign to be:
“Well, that is good to see Ted pick her. Can you media folk ask her if this means she would still consider being my running mate or not?”
Ted’s big score becomes three days of the media talking about a Fiorina-Trump matchup.
To which her easy response would be:
“Sorry but I don’t team up with misogynist liberals for political gain. That’s Hilary.”
Love it. They will slay H.
Hah- after their early exchanges, I would have been shocked to see Carly join Trump. Her wit and demeanor could do much to balance Cruz.
This kinda reminds me of the old pictures of my Dad’s relatives when he was a kid (1920’s). He had about ten aunts that were nun’s in full habit. Smiles were in short supply. Just looking at the photo sent a stiff chill wind through your bones. Talk about a long day.
Fiorina is a great choice and Cruz should announce it sooner rather than later.
March of the dour penguins!
I think this is a good choice. I’m hoping this will help Cruz in California, where Carly Fiorina ran for the U.S. Senate. On the other hand, if Cruz cannot win Indiana, this move may be a case of “too little, too late”.
If we can’t get Los Hermanos Cubanos, this is a good pick.
That’s kind of interesting. I just saw a headline somewhere saying that the Cruz-Kasich bond has already “cooled off.” I wonder if Kasich thought Cruz and he would be on the same ticket too.
Interesting. :)
Exactly what Susan Quinn said. I’ve been saying this for months. Dream Team!
Oooo great pick, and she’s an outsider so that will definitely help. And can dampen down the obvious, woman card Hillary will be throwing down. Hate that we have to play identity politics but hey that’s the game. And our lady is more accomplished, more intelligent and honorable than yours.
Plus I think Carly is ready for prime time, she’s the best choice
No candidate is perfect. Con: Carly has both a lack of elected office experience and some slightly squishy issues from her business career that Dems will exploit (think interviews with disgruntled ex-HPers, the use of special worker visas (I forget what they’re called) in tech, so on).
Pro: she is an excellent communicator, did well in the debates, and she could add a lot of appeal to the ticket.
Dream: although the Veep candidate doesn’t get to debate the Presidential candidate of the opposing party, still, if given a crack at Hildabeast on so-called women’s issues, Carly’d tear her apart.
(Nightmare: the press’d play it as just a cat fight to show Carly in a bad light while elevating Hillary for standing for women or something)
Only thing you left out is: she rocks on the stump! What content! What a delivery! Her debate performances were outstanding! And, she managed to put Trump down in a firm but classy way . . . just brilliant all the way around.
You might have noticed that’s not in particularly high demand these days. In short, it’s not a bug . . . it’s a feature.
Could they put Carly on top of the ticket?
Actually I think it’s a convenient ‘leak’ that will be plugged up quickly after it makes its ripple. Just imagine the GOPe high-fiving at the convention over yet another outsider.
Here’s her response: “That’s right, Secretary Clinton, for the 96% of America that’s not working for government—which thanks to a $20 Trillion debt is immune from this thing we call a ‘business cycle’—for those people, Senior Executives have to actually make horrible but unavoidable choices. We can’t just print money and then push the bill off to be paid by those not yet born. You wouldn’t understand this, since your livelihood has almost always been a function of your proximity to politically powerful people, such as your husband.”
Lewandowski could knock her out before the end of the first round. The latest Trump tweet: My campaign manager can beat-up your VP candidate.
But I suspect the stupidity of this country would not even see the value of a ticket like that…..
Great. Another Washington Generals ticket.
No, you misread this . . . she’s not running with Trump. Relax.
Jon,
It makes great sense as a balanced ticket. He comes off as either exactly what you want if you are from a red state or as monotonal one-dimensional if you are from a blue state. She provides the other dimension for him. Of course, if she is unable to meet his social conservative demands it will open them up to a charge of hypocrisy. If they can agree on a program then they would be a power team. It must be a sincere marriage or it will fail.
If they present a united front and a clear alternative to progressive ideological madness this is a big winner.
Regards,
Jim
I really do not see the logic of this at all.
If the primaries showed anything with regard to Fiorina it is that outside of political junkies she has no natural constituency, wildly popular in places such as Ricochet while not resonating with the broader electorate in any sense whatsoever. She doesn’t bring any new voters to the ticket in the primaries or in the general. Competent to be certain but politically she would not be much of an asset to the campaign.
Carly would make a great pick as any candidate’s running mate.
A good pick for the several obvious reasons (woman, smart, great communicator, a real Hillary-killer, etc.) but also for two less obvious reasons. First, if “Stop Trump” is successful, in order to MINIMIZE Trump voter leakeage in November, the alternative ticket has to have anti-establishment street cred. Cruz-Fiorina gives you that. Of course, there’s a segment of Trump voters that will never get on board unless Donald is leading the ticket. But I expect most of them to get on board when they (i) see Cruz-Fiorina campaign agressively against Hilary, as outsiders; and (ii) wake up and realize it’s “Lyin’ Donald” more than “Lyin’ Ted”.
Second, no one beats up “Crony Capitalism” like Carly (except for maybe Sarah Palin). That is critical because my operating theory is that the path to victory for Republicans in November runs down Main Street. The only way Republicans can change the electoral map is to cede Wall Street and big business support to Hilary and run hard for Main Street, the disaffected working middle class (in both parties), and the SUPERMAJORITIES of Democrats, Independents AND Republicans who believe government and business work together against the interests of the average American. It’s a narrow path, but it’s there and it’s entirely consistent with the core principles of Conservatism. And with Hilary so tied to monied interests, the right ticket could clean her clock and create the kind of durable majorities that sound like “realignment”.
Just saw her stump for Ted Cruz at the Maine GOP Convention this past Saturday. She was completely on the money. I can’t see a downside for him.
Yep. And let’s not miss the fact that this info came from the Fiorina camp. Is there anything really wrong with that? Maybe not, other than the overriding ambition that leads to this not coming from Cruz.
Despite all of the high praise coming from the posts above, Fiorina shares some of the negative aspects of Cruz–in McLuhan-speak, that would be “cold.” Thanks for letting us know you’re being vetted, Carly.
See Reagan-Schweiker ’76.